Wallaceburg District Secondary School - Actiana Yearbook (Wallaceburg, Ontario Canada)

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STUDENT COUNCIL .... First Row - Eileen Bechard. Greta McFadden. Annie Van Vliet, Mary Ann Wraighl. 'Miss C. Zavilz. Nadine McGregor, Nancy Simpson. Beth Hinnegan. Rachel Bril. Second Row - Lyle Stokes. Fred Lindsay. Dick Sadlier. Marie Morrison. Barbara Wesley. Carol Webster. Bruce Hunter. lim Capes, Alan Mann. Paul Glasgow. Third Row - lack Watson. Douglas Campbell. Gordon Davies. Bruce Campbell. Ed Davies. Wayne Willan. lack Burgess. LITERATURE AND YOUTH .... The processes of nature provide the running stream with a crystal clear- ness. Youth has been provided with a clear and active mind. Opinions are formed by what is read, heard an seen. Just as a stream will become muddied if enough of the wrong kind of soil is allowed to enter the stream, similarly if the mind is subjected to enough of the wrong kind of literature it will become soiled and perhaps drugged so it cannot reach the limitless horizons of great literature. The test of literature through all time is, does it raise your ideals or does it lower them? Does it help to build a better world? Books that are worthwhile last through the years. while the remaining books are quickly submerged in the ranks of forgotten literature. Books with unclean thoughts are books for the student to leave unread. lt is beyond the comprehension, the number and variety of well-written books with uplifting ideals, from which a student may choose. Literature is a means of learning and if a student could only realize the tremendous importance of his choice of books, he would choose more thoughtfully the literary pebbles they let fall into the pool of their mind. Tom Brunt -19-

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EDITORIAL STAFF .... Front Row - Miss Nora Quigley. B.A., Ed Davies. Marietta Campbell, Bruce Campbell. Martin Prachowny, David Feduzzi, Mr. Gordon Garrod, B.A. Second Row - Donald Daley, Eleanor Reynolds, Donna Watson, Maria Huige, Beth Hinnegan. 'Mary Stevens. Dean Whitteker, Al Mann. Third How - Gary Cooper. Harry Tarr, Gary Trampleasure, Iohn Burnett, Iames Sutherland. Editor-in-Chief - Bruce Campbell. Assistant Editors W Martin Prachowny, Marietta Campbell. Business Manager - Harry Tarr. Advertising Manager - Ed Davies. Assistant - Al Mann. Circulation Manager - Donald Daley. Literary Editor f Mary Stevens. Assistant - Maria Huige. Sports Editor - Beth Hinnegan. Assistant f James Sutherland. Photography Editor - David Feduzzi. Social Editor g Dean Whitteker. Assistant - Gary Cooper. Student Activities - Eleanor Reynolds. Music Editor - Donna Watson. Assistant - Gary Trampleasure. Alumni Editor - Al Mann. Art Editor - John Burnett. Staff Advisors - Mr. Gordon Garrod. B.A. - Miss Nora Quigley, B.A. -1g-

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COURTESY .... To us, living in this modern, up to date, atomic age of the twentieth century, courtesy, chivalry and politeness seem to have been obliterated and entirely exterminated from the dictionary. The way young people of today act is ridiculous, bombastic and entirely idiotic. I, for one, am sick and tired of seeing pupils arguing with teachers, children arguing with parents, motorists arguing with pedestrians and so on all down the line. The four C's, chivalry, courtesy, care and common sense, all go together to make an extremely import- ant factor of modern day living. The way courtesy is being mistreated and ignored is something worth not talking about. Rather, if I were to write a book on examples of Ignorance of Courtesy a great deal of it would be unfit to print! Wallaceburg District High School is a good example of what I have been talking about for the last seventeen lines! First of all there are the cafeteria lines where all angels and archangels of grade ten become fearless, gruesome buccaneers or better still just plain devils, with the motto death to anyone who gets in our way! The person who is at the first of the line may eventually find himself at the extreme end or perhaps underneath the line of bloodthirsty, famished scavengers. Wallets are swiped, toes are crushed and noses are put to bleeding, while the unlucky victim may spend the rqst of the day in the nurse's room and the subdued criminal sent to spend an extended sentence in room fifteen. All of this juv- enile delinquency for a forty cent meal, as you can see, just ends with the act- or in the sin bin and the receiver in the hospital. Next, and even more shocking is the bus line at four o'clock. I do not know if every bus line is like that of bus number one, but I may be safe in saying that one bus line like bus number one's is absolutely enough, thank you! The lack of courtesy is tremendous. The line will be in perfect shape in knowledge of the rules of etiquette when student X from class Y bursts through the doors at tremendous speed, knocks over a row of girls, sprawls their books and belongings over half the school grounds and then takes his earned position at the extreme premier of the line: while the girls pick them- selves up delicately and commence to sort out their scattered and demolished wreckage. This is not all, mind you! There remains the fact that everyone, I repeat everyone wants a seat next' to the window that opens, not too close to the front and preferably to the right side, and not too near the heater, and definitely not over the wheel, and so on. When we do get on, there is a mad scramble for one seat during which pencils, rulers, rubbers, books, geometry sets, hats, gloves, mitts, scarves, earmuffs, glasses and believe it or not, even shoes are lost and later picked up as the owner leaves the bus! The main in- strument or defence and revenge is the compass, which when opened to its extreme radius is an excellent, cunning little weapon. Others include bean shooters, pea shooters, elastic bands, homemade catapults made of clothespins and big heavy school books, the nice flat kind that makes a lovely wack when forcibly descended upon a person's already deeply creased skull! Further- more, if you do not want your books scattered the length and width of the bus, it would be wise to carry a suitcase. Next is the problem of classroom courtesy. Every time the bell rings for change of classes, there is mass confusion in every room. The scientific law, no two things can occupy the same space at the same time is completely dis- regarded, as the completely exhausted pupils of math class suddenly pick up an extra quantity of vigour and vim and sally forth into battle at the porthole of the classroom. Though there have been no fatalities it would make a wonderful scene in a murder mystery on television. It takes twice or three times as long to get out of a classroom in this way as it would if a bit of court- esy and chivalry were put to practice. Courtesy to teachers as well as fellow pupils should be exercised. I could go on and on and on on this topic, but I think this is sufficient to illustrate just how courtesy is being used today. The answer is definitely negative, isn't it? Donald Moffat -20-